Grit Labs bridges technology and talent to industry.
Grit Labs is a platform that brings together a strategic network of innovators spread across America’s marquee university and government labs. We partner with big industry to bring startups to market. We focus on the intersection of ready technology and deep market opportunity, with an eye toward impact.
Grit engages industry advisors to collaborate in support of the Grit Ventures portfolio and Grit Labs. Grit Industry Advisors have deep expertise spanning industrial automation, defense, AI, construction and energy.
Grit’s University Fellows Program is a diversity-driven initiative focused on elevating university talent into venture capital, STEM, AI, Robotics and Energy. Grit is an ardent advocate of equal opportunity.
We believe that by rooting the socioeconomic networks resulting from deep technology in diversity, we have a special opportunity to change the world for the better.
The program includes a lecture series on entrepreneurship and venture capital, a focused research initiative, and connection to the Grit Labs strategic community.
Energy Transition Summit at UT Austin
The Energy Transition has just begun and will require trillions in investment in the coming decades. Industry university collaboration will be at the heart of this effort and Texas will have a special role to play. Grit Summit included panels, research presentations, startup showcase, lab tours and industry meetings.
Industrial Automation Summit at Carnegie Mellon
The Clean Machine revolution is here to solve challenging opportunities in industrial Automation. Innovation in Industrial Automation will increase efficiency and productivity and will be a big driver of GDP in the next decade. Pittsburgh is the hub of robotics innovation in the US. Summit included panels, research presentations, startup showcase, lab tours and industry meetings.
Grit Labs is actively enrolling strategically focused industry partners who are seeking a
bridge to technology and talent
in the labs.
The Grit Labs platform brings innovators in the university and government labs together with industry partners, entrepreneurial talent and investors to build impactful solutions to the world’s biggest challenges and to explore market opportunity and commercialization.We connect early-stage technologies and startups to these important industry partners through Grit Labs strategic initiatives including our Startup Studio Accelerator Program and our Membership Program.
Grit Labs Startup Studio Sponsorship: a bi-annual three month accelerator with multiple tracks that encompasses strategic themes agreed upon by Grit Labs and the Industry Sponsors.
Grit Labs membership: an annual membership which includes not only sponsorship of the Startup Studio, but also establishing investment objectives, providing curated deal flow on a quarterly basis and invitations to all events.
Grit Labs is helping startups emerge from the labs.
Grit Labs Startup Studio Accelerator Program is designed to accelerate the Go-to-Market transition of deep tech startups emerging from the nation’s top labs. Grit Ventures makes initial investments in each startup and delivers in-kind services in exchange for common equity. The Startup Studio is supported by the Grit Labs community which includes industry partners, other venture funds, government agencies, experienced entrepreneurs, academics and graduate students. This hyper-resourced environment will provide Startup Studio companies the resources they need to commercialize breakthrough technologies. Grit’s network is purpose built for the special connections and knowledge required to scale deep tech companies from the earliest stages through liquidity.
Join the Deep Tech community: Office Hours with Jen and Xiao.
Hosted by Jennifer Roberts from Grit Ventures and Xiaoming Yin from Lockheed Ventures. This community includes monthly Zoom calls focused on specific challenges faced by early stage deep tech startups, for example: Fundraising Strategies and Milestones, Running a Successful Pilot, Business Models and ROI Calculations. Manufacturing Strategies, Building a Company Culture, Dual Use startegies and more! If you are interested in attending, please fill out this quick survey.
Diversity of perspective is a key to the future.
Grit University Fellows is a university-talent program focused on deep technology exploration and entrepreneurship.
2022 Applications due February 2022
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